New TDM FM Released: House of Theo

There’s been a welcome resurgence in new TDM FMs following the recent Halloween Speed build competition. To start off the Silly Season, we have a new FM up for download. It’s called “House of Theo”.

It’s by Theothesnoop, and it weighs in at just over 6 MB. You’d think then that it’s a rather small FM, but just looking at the screenshots over at TDM alone, it looks to be a pretty big map. Most of it takes place in a huge castle. I just so happen to love castles – this is a big reason why I’ve always been a big fan of the original Thief series: the architecture.

So go ahead and grab the FM over here. I’ll no doubt have a play and have a review up soon.

The Dark Mod Version 1.07 Released

I was just reading yesterday that the latest version of The Dark Mod, 1.07 is now out!

There’s plenty of bugfixes and AI has been improved quite a bit. NPCs now notice ropes dangling from wooden structures (rope arrows), interact better with doors and so on, and combat animations have been improved too (about time).

In addition to, that I’m quite excited to see that for the first time, vine arrows are now available for mappers to use in their fan missions. Vine arrows differ from rope arrows in the way that they can be used on both wooden surfaces and metal grates. Traditionally they are more expensive than rope arrows in official Thief games (they’ve only appeared so far in Thief II: The Metal Age – late in the game, too).

It’s always the little things that count…

There’s plenty of other improvements in this release - there’s an entire list for you to read. The download weight should be about 184 MB, apparently. Run your tdm_update.exe file to update your version to the latest one. Finish your FMs first. Savegames won’t work after the upgrade.

By the way, I took a look over at The Dark Mod’s Moddb page, and I saw that now they have a version 1.06 file (going on 2 GB) for download. Previously there was only a version 1.03.

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Source: TDM